Week 27

Don't have much time to type because I've been very distracted today. We had a baptism this week. It was Awesome! We are teaching him his first New Member lesson after P-Day today and it is going to be fantastic! I love you and stay safe!

Week 26

It has been cold and rainy here too because of  El Niño. It is a weather pattern that brings the cool ocean air onto San Diego and in result a good bunch of rain too. The opposite is La Niña where hot desert air come from Arizona and Mexico and keeps San Diego Warm for the winter.
I personally like El Niño. I love the rain and the cold weather. While all of the Weather Wusses of San Diego don't, so they think I am weird or something. What else is new right?

With my goals for the new year, I am confident that as put my faith fully in the Lord and work as hard as I can and let the Lord do his part it will happen. As said above I have faith that the Lord will bless me and my companion with 100 people to share the gospel with and baptize this year.  This will not be easy and I could not even dream of doing it on my own. But with the Lord at my side and as I consecrate myself as a missionary of Jesus Christ, all things are possible. I will go forth with the Faith of the Sons of Mosiah!

Our companionship is doing well. I have had a history of caring deeply for my companions because I love them as I would my brother. But as a result I would go towards the extreme of over caring and trying to help when I was not invited to. I am striving to balance myself on this by looking towards the Savior. The Savior always has His hand outstretched to assist but the person He is striving to help needs to grab hold before any helping can happen. Likewise, I plan on letting my companions know I am always there to help but not to give unwanted help.

The area is catching on fire. Michael is going to be baptized this week and we have about 3 other baptisms that will potentially happen this month.
Have a Fantastic Day!
Elder J. Alger"

Week 25

This new area I am in was so neglected. I got here and we started whipping it back into shape but the more we fix the more I realize is messed up. I am so thankful to have supporting family, friends and companion. Without you I couldn't do this both physically and emotionally. Thank you. Talking with the family on Christmas was really nice. The more I learn about the Gospel and my calling the more responsibility comes upon my shoulders and then pressure. It is hard when you are constantly under pressure but is it good because that is the only way the Lord is going to make THIS lump of coal into a crystal clear diamond.

I love you all and thank you once more.
Elder J. Alger

These are some really cool graffiti. It reminds me of when Sam would

send a graffiti of the week. 😀

Week 24

The mission is going great! I have a new stud of a companion, Elder Climer. We are serving in the most densely populated area of San Diego. We have about 10-15 square miles in our ward and 20,000 people in it. 900 of them being members, active or not. We currently have about 90-100 people attend sacrament. We also have 4 investigators with a baptismal date in January! All of which were set in the last 6 days I have been here. We are hastening the work. I love being on a mission. Elder Climer is a very mellow Elder. I have a hard time knowing how he is feeling. His expression seems to be neutral all of the time. He is great though! He wants to do missionary work and do it right, so our
area is on fire. We had our mission devotional yesterday. All of the missionaries in the whole mission gathered together for music and talks by Pres. And Sis. Schmitt. We had a brunch after and I was able to see all of my MTC district in one place again! It was awesome.

Merry Christmas!
Love,
Elder Josh Alger

Week 23

This week has been great. Yesterday was probably the highlight. We had three appointments scheduled for the giant 9 hour time chunk that is from 12 pm to 9 pm (in comparison to the usual 5-9 appointments) we were really struggling for people to find. I said a prayer early in the day asking how we can be diligent with our time despite the lack of people to see. As we went along we ended up teaching a few lessons and receiving a referral investigator from the Spanish missionaries that has a baptismal date. It was a day of miracles.

This is the missionary guidelines for technology use it is really amazing and I think it would be really  useful in technology use at home too. I just thought I would make it available to all of you. :)
http://njmm.org/uploads/Safeguards_for_Using_Technology.pdf

I love you all!
Until next week,
Elder Joshua Alger

This is the dot game we would play some times on Sunday's back home.
We aren't aloud to play card or board games so we compromised. :D

The rest of these are pics with our district for district lunch it was the day before Elder Shepard, our district Leader had to go home. It was a good time.

Week 22

If you look for it there is a double rainbow

Carlo an Dina are baptized!

bowling fun

Week 21